“Why the hell is this thing so slow?!”0

“They said it's the fastest boat, though!”0

“Fastest, my ass! A sloth can haul ass faster!”0

“Calm down, will ya? Dammit, man…”0

Even though people were grumbling unhappily behind him, Yi Myeong-Hwan paid them no mind.0

‘Dammit. Why aren't we there yet?’0

The only thing he could see was the endless stretch of the ocean. Maybe things might have been better had he come here during the daytime. At night, though? He couldn't see anything other than the dark surface of the water and the night sky maintaining a delicate boundary against the water on the distant horizon.0

That made it so much harder to get a sense of how far this boat had come.0

‘How long has it been since we departed?’0

Yi Myeong-Hwan nervously chewed on his nails.0

“Oi, Myeong-Hwan. Calm down, dude.”0

“You think I can calm down in this situation?!” Yi Myeong-Hwan shot back at his comrade.0

“Come on, now. I'm sure the Assembly Master had a plan when he went ahead with only a handful of people. Other than how thoughtless and reckless they are… You know he can be surprisingly calculative.”0

Yi Myeong-Hwan groaned softly as he listened.0

‘Calculative? My foot.’0

Kang Jin-Ho's standing within the Martial Assembly was absolute. That was because he had never failed once since his first appearance. That wasn't all, either, as he was also responsible for the Martial Assembly's scarcely believable rate of improvement.0

The Demon Flames could legitimately claim to be the biggest beneficiary of this improvement, so their loyalty and faith toward Kang Jin-Ho was unquestioning....0